Today is day 18 for Marchmeetthemaker and the prompt today is colour. Obviously from previous posts I use colour in quite a lot of my work. When I am out and about I often dress in quite dull colours but when on duty at the shop or art events out comes the logo pith helmet …
Marchmeetthemaker day 17 and the prompt is process. So where do you start to create a piece. The clip above shows the stages in drawing my current commission but it doesn’t show the pre drawing aspect. My task: Create a keepsake box for a teacher who is leaving to have a baby. Background: The client …
Marchmeetthemaker day 16 prompt – so for me a search for an older portfolio case and the pieces I have shared on Instagram (@andy.knill) and Tik Tok (@andyknillart) this morning. This is an early sketch in the first few pieces of using the promarker colour pens. Papermill lock outside Chelmsford, Essex was a favourite location …
Day 15 of Marchmeetthemaker and today’s prompt. Less photos today because there are some key priorities here: 1) enjoying and sharing where I live every day with my Good morning from Swanage posts. I am lucky enough to have this view and I want to share it. Later in each day I share some Vitamin …
Day 14 of Marchmeetthemaker and another weekend chance to create my own prompt which today is to look for pieces of art drawn of scenes away from the water which has become so important in my Purbeck life. This was drawn from the drive of my friend Nick. I love the silver birches and drew …
Marchmeetthemaker does not have weekend prompts so this is one of my own developed more as Ilive by he coastand love boats. Some of these are drawn from photos on instagram as lockdown practices. An old friend from teaching volunteers at sailability and had told me about he coloured boat and sail combinations. When restrictions …
Today’s MarchMeettheMaker prompt for day 12 is “In use”, I have seen others show photos from customers where their art has been hung or displayed. Of course as I draw on things I thought they would be better examples for me. So,… Robin’s hat featured the yacht that he sails off Studland Bay, Captain Pugwash …
So day 11 in March Meet the Maker prompts on Instagram. I am reusing post work, I post on Instagram initially, it copies it to my artist Facebook page. Later I use the images to put together a clip for Tik Tok and now I am blogging about it too, it almost qualifies as linked …
March 10 prompt for #MarchMeettheMaker. I told people in my Instagram post that I would give more detail about this series of photos. I also then amended my post as the newest aspect of marketing I am going to try is linking into Influencing – do I fully understand what it might involve – yes …
Today is day 9 of March Meet the Maker, an Instagram based event started by a lady called Joanne Hawker to encourage small creative energy businesses to share more background about themselves. Follow the hashtag #marchmeetthemaker and see such a wide variety of creative talents. Each day there is a prompt, except weekend days that …